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[[Category:New Reviews|Popular Science]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clive Gifford1788360702|title=This is Not a Science BookCharles, The Alternative Prince: A Smart Art Activity BookAn Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard Ernst|rating= 54|genre= Children's Non-FictionBiography|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. ''This is Not a Science BookCharles, The Alternative Prince'' explores critically assesses the often-overlooked link between science Prince's opinions, beliefs and creativityaims against the background of the scientific evidence. This interactive book encourages readers to get cutting, glueing, twisting, colouring There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and shading in order his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to create the reputation of a variety man who is proud of athis refusal to apply evidence-home experiments that are as entertaining as they are educational. The activities are also perfect for a rainy day; making this book a welcome resource during the long (and often wet) school holidaysbased, logical reasoning to his ambitions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782403973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojo0192779230|title=Build Your Own WebsiteVery Short Introductions for Curious Young Minds: Create with CodeThe Invisible World of Germs|author=Isabel Thomas

|summary=The Nanonauts want 'Germs' seems to have become a website for their band, and who better catch-all word to build it for them than cover anything unpleasant which has the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? potential to make you ill. In this handbook, created the first book in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundation, children of seven plus will learn how what looks to build be a website using HTMLvery promising new series, CSS OUP and JavascriptIsabel Thomas have provided a clear and accessible introduction to the world of germs. Don't worry too much if some of those words don't mean anything to you - all will be made clear as you read through We get an informed look at how people originally thought about diseases and what they thought caused them and how the bookthinking has developed over time. ThereThe vocabulary can be confusing but Thomas gives a regular box headed 's also information about how to start speak like a CoderDojo Nano club with friends - scientist' which has great benefits in terms explains some of harnessing creativitythe trickiest concepts and you'll soon be familiar with bacteria, learning fungi, protists and viruses – and how to code - and the benefits of teamworkwe should protect ourselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CoderDojogareth_steel|title=Build Your Own Website: Create with CodeNever Work With Animals|author=Gareth Steel|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The Nanonauts want I don't often begin my reviews with a website for their band, and who better warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to build it for them than the CoderDojo network of free computing clubs for young people? In this handbook, created in conjunction with the CoderDojo Foundation, children be appropriate. Stories of seven plus will learn how to build a website using HTML, CSS vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and JavascriptSmall'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. DonAs a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures't worry too much if some of those words don't mean anything to you - all will be made clear lacked realism, as you read through do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the bookis not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with him. ThereHe says that he's also information about how written it to start a CoderDojo Nano club inform and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with friends - which has great benefits in terms of harnessing creativitysome uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, learning how to code - although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and the benefits of teamworkeating.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405278730</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Young Rewired State0241480442|title=Get Coding!Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Learn HTML, CSS & JavaScript & build a website, app & gameVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCookery|summary=Learning to codeEmotionally, even heading into my seventh decadeI am a vegan. Mentally, changed my life I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for today's children it's important because it opens so many doors(preferably cheap) food. It might look complicatedPractically, but all it required is concentration and - eventually - imaginationI am not a vegan. I had It worked for a reasonable mastery of while apart from the skills of basic HTML in three days odd blip with the benefit regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of a personal tutor, but where to go if those events which you hope don't have that privilege or if you need some extra support? occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn''Get Coding!'' seems like t the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the perfect answerease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Arabella Kurtz and J M CoetzeeDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title= The Good Story: Exchanges A Tattoo on Truth, Fiction and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapymy Brain|rating= 3.5|genre= Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary= We live Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected by storiesthis cruel disease, as have many. Novelists weave tales that may or may not reflect reality, Your memories and that we accept personality worn away like a statue over time affected the elements. It seems as their job: to create fictions with intriguing character plots if nature wants that draw in, surprise final victory over you and touch the reader your dignity. This is at the core of their job descriptionwhat makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. But story telling goes beyond profession: everyone, writer or not, sometimes more consciously, sometimes less, creates their own history, selects memories that they retain, repress others, and constantly weave together Daniel Gibbs is a story of neurologist who we are, a tale of identitywas diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099598221</amazonuk>1108838936

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Woollett0099551063|title=Sea JournalThe Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin Dutton|rating=54

|summary=Over the course of a year Lisa Woollett invites us to go with her '' 'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on her visits to various beaches in the British Isles, although psychopathic traits' claims Oxford University researcher.'visits'  Until the events of 6 January 2021 that might make what happens sound a little too formal. Woollett knows her local beacheshave surprised, and some further afield, in much the same way even shocked many readers: now they're probably convinced that a gardener knows their own plotthey knew it all along. She's aware The statement has lost a little of minute changes, how its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the phase nature of the moon will affect the tide, what she can expect to find in the strandline and where it's come frompsychopathy. She delights in every variation of the weather and sheIt's a mine of wonderful information from ancient myths to up-too easy toassociate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsley, the real-life Hannibal Lecter, but the-minute sciencetruth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957490216</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig Martin1849767343|title= Shipping Container (Object Lessons)Count on Me|author=Miguel Tanco|rating= 34.5|genre= Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= This The title and format of this book is small, not even 150 pages of text, and more like 100 if might lead you exclude the index, references and acknowledgements so perhaps to think that it's unsurprising that either about responsibility - or it had to choose 's a more limited focusbasic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey. There is plenty still It isn't: it's a hymn of praise to learn from the bookmaths. The word 'dunnage It' s about why maths is used daily so wonderful and everyone knows what how you meet it means (the stuff inside containers to protect contents from damage during transit) but it was interesting to learn the origin of its usein everyday life. Twist locks – the mighty strong connectors that can be used to link containers together – are also heavily featured.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501303147</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tristan GooleyB08B39QNRH|title=How to Read WaterThe Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard

|summary=Signs are all around us, if we know where to look. The ability to read and interpret signs ''Society is particularly useful to navigators and those who make their living based on speech but civilisation requires the water. In fact, the ability to read water can mean the difference between life and death, especially when strong tidal currents are involved. Of course, there are those who take water-reading beyond the ability of even the most experienced sailors. Traditional Arab navigators called this knowledge the ''isharat.'' Pacific islanders call it ''kapesani lemetauwritten word''-the talk of the sea or water lore. Those who posses such knowledge have been baffling Westerners for centuries with their seemingly preternatural ability to understand the water.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615208</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=I came to Michael Marder|title=Dust (Object Lessons)|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Pritchard's 'Dust'' is among the latest volumes in BloomsburyThe Curious History of Writer's fascinating new Cramp'Object Lessons' seriesby a rather strange route. With titles ranging from ''Cigarette Lighter'' I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting'Shipping Container: I prefer the word 'painful', but I have an interest in the books aim to explore way that hands work. An exploration of the hidden histories history of commonplace items. Here Marder approaches dust not as a scientist but as a philosopher: he is a professor at the University problem which has defeated some of the Basque Country, Spain. Nevertheless, he reminds readers that dust is largely composed of skin cells best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and hairso it proved, with the detritus of our human bodies. Thus dusting – book being as much about the doctors treating the verb form – is a kind of guilty attempt to clean up after ourselves, ultimately a futile sufferers and 'self-defeating occupation'the changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1628925582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cedric Villani1776572858|title=Birth of How Do You Make a TheoremBaby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'Birth d get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a Theorem'' is a remarkable journey into the world of the abstract mathematics that shape our lives and existence. When you first open pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the book and flick through the pagesbasics, you are confronted with complex formulas that disorientate the mind and defy the understanding of anyone not versed in the clinical language of the mathematician. You realise at this point that you need a guide for your journey which had never been used in our house before) and there is none better I was told that Cedric Valliniit wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. He is a winner of the Fields Medal I ''knew'' more, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prizebut was little ''wiser''. A genius who has dedicated his life to understanding the most complex aspects of our world Thankfully, times have changed. He is also a writer gifted in conveying the elation and despair that his gift can bring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099581973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adam GrantDanny Dorling|title= Originals: How Non-conformists Change the World Slowdown|rating= 4 |genre= Popular SciencePolitics and Society|summary=Did you know that procrastination could actually aid creativity? No? Neither did I, but it's We are living in a piece time of information that I shall embrace rapid change, and wield in my defence from here on out, because Adam Grant says we're worried about it . Dorling tells us that the latter is sonormal, natural and probably good for us. Filled We are designed to worry and with interesting snippets the current state of what we're doing in the world we have much to be worried about. However, over the next three-hundred-and fascinating -some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, or in some casesthat we're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, Originals is things are not just entertainingchanging as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, but instructive as wellthe rate of change in many things is slowing down and the direction of change will in some cases go into reverse. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0753556979</amazonuk>0300243405

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben MillerLangford_Emily|title=The Aliens are ComingEmily's Numbers|author=Joss Langford

|genre=Popular ScienceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Next time that you are away from the towns and citiesEmily found words ''useful'', wait until it gets dark and then look into the night skybut counting was what she loved best. If Obviously, you are lucky enough for it not can count anything and there's no limit to be raininghow far you can go, you will likely see hundreds of stars but then Emily moved a step further and began counting in the skytwos. She knew all about odd and even numbers. Each one Then she began counting in threes: half of these could be a Sun just like our own the list were even numbers, but the other half was odd and each it was this list of these Suns could have planets orbiting itodd numbers which occurred when you counted in threes which she called ''threeven''. Now times (Actually, this number confused me a little bit at first as they're a million fold and you can start subset of the odd numbers but sound as though they ought to fathom the number be a subset of stars and planets out there – surely the human race is not a complete fluke and there are aliens even numbers, but it all worked out there?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B018W4J9VG</amazonuk>well when I really thought about it.)

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jens Harder1910593508|title=Alpha: DirectionsApollo|author=Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collins

|genre=Graphic NovelsHistory|summary=So, people might still ask me, why do I turn to This incredible graphic novels – aren't visual books with limited writing more suited novel is a love letter to young people? Yeah, right – try pawning this off on juvenile audiences the Moon landings and the semi-literate. If you can't kill that cliché passion for the subject drips off with pages such as these I don't know what will work. I know the book isn't designed to be a message to people in the debate about the literary worth of graphic novelsevery Apollo by Matt Fitch, but one side-effect of it is surely an engagement with that argumentChris Baker and Mike Collins. What it is designed to be This is a complete history story we know well and because of everything else – and in covering every prehistoric momentthis, it does just the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that, and absolutely brilliantly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Clancy Martin|title= Love and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without we can fill in the Other|rating= 3blanks.5|genre= Popular Science|summary= Lying is wrong and These shortcuts are the last people you would lie only downside to willingly are the ones book. If you love the most – or so 've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you would like to think. In ''Love and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without will be familiar with the Other'', Clancy Martin, a philosophy professor, self-confessed expert liar, slight feeling that there are scenes missing and serial groom, sets out on that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a mission to disprove the central beliefs we hold with respect to, no more graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and no less than, our own moralitystill felt too short.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700770</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Wulf1999308719|title=The Invention of NatureLive Forever Manual: The Adventures of Alexander von HumboldtScience, ethics and companies behind the Lost Hero of Sciencenew anti-aging treatments|author=Adrian Cull

|genre=BiographyLifestyle|summary=Alexander von Humboldt was born in Berlin in 1769, the younger brother of Wilhelm von Humboldt who would become a Prussian minister but who is perhaps better remembered as a philosopher and linguist. The family was well-For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to-do live forever and both brothers benefitted from an excellent educationthat so far, although they lacked affection from their emotionally-distant widowed mother, but it was a legacy from her which would fund Alexander's first explorationsworking out OK. His first travels would be in Europe where he met Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and was influenced by healthier than most people such as Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, who had travelled with Thomas Cook. But it was his travels in Latin America my age there were a few nagging health problems which would lay the foundations for his were tipping my life's work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alastair Fothergill and Huw Cordey|title=The Hunt|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife |summary=My mother has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on the death and violence, or how it's all about the capture and killing out of one animal by anotherbalance. She's long had a point, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothing, and lions sleeping off the heat without munching on a passing wildebeest's leg really don't cut it when it comes It was time to providing popular TV content. I doubt she will be tuning in to the series this book accompanies, even if the volume very quickly testifies that it's not all about the capture – often the chase can be just as thrilling, and the result look for the intended victim is favourable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kima Cargill|title= The Psychology of Overeating|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular Science|summary= As a nation, we are not the same new approach and as we used to be. We eat more, both as in more so often and as in more of a serving size. And we eat worse. Processed foods. Sugary drinks. It’s not really news. As a resulthappens, our waistlines are larger, our blood pressure is higher, and our sugar levels are whoooosh. But it’s not just about the food. This reviewing gods brought me the book takes an in depth and incredibly interesting look at our lives as a whole, to show how the modern culture of consumerism shows up in every part of our day to day living and explains, to quite a significant degree, why many of us are overeating and why it is so hard to stopI needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472581075</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marianne Taylor|title= I Used To Know That ''Live Forever Manual: General Science|rating= 4|genre= Popular Science|summary= This book got off to the right start in my mind because it comes in 3 key sections, each for one of 'my' sciences without a nod to any of ethics and companies behind the other 'new anti-ologies' (or 'ageing treatments'pseudo sciences'' as they were often called at school). Marketed as ''stuff you forgot from school'', this is a book from seemed like the same series that has already spawned [[I Used answer to Know That: History by Emma Marriott ]], [[I Used to Know That: Maths by Chris Waring]] and [[I Should Know That my problems - Great Britain by Emma Marriott]] among othersonly you get so much more than just 101 tips. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178243447X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joel Levy1847941834|title=Why We Do the Things We Do: Psychology in a NutshellAtomic Habits|author=James Clear

|genre=Popular ScienceLifestyle|summary=Chalk I've said this before but there are some books that you seek out, some books that you stumble across and cheese; some books that drop into your left hand and your right; philosophy and psychology. All pairs have something closely resembling yet very different from the otherlife because you really MUST read them, whether through colour and crumblinesslike, or physical form, or from being studies of the mind. right now! The only thing is, one pair is alone. ''Atomic Habits'' Your two hands formed at the same time, whereas chalk is the older, and philosophy predates psychology. The two were the same thing until recently, and we can perhaps point at a William James as the father of the split. I make this point because when I reviewed this volume's [[Why We Think the Things we Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell by Alain Stephen|sister book]] I found no timeline or history evident. Here, however, we do get one – travelling quickly from the ideas of idiocy-cum-possession in our early history, through phrenology and mesmerism to the birth of psychology. The fact that we then immediately look at free will in much the same terms as the philosophers does shows how common the disciplines still are – and how vital to our understanding of ourselves both topics remainlast category.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434127</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alain StephenHoneyborne BlueII|title=Why We Think the Things we Think: Philosophy in a NutshellBlue Planet II|author=James Honeyborne and Mark Brownlow

|genre=Popular ScienceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Way back You may well remember when, when I started back on adult education having finished my university life (I know, the sticking of a number '2' after a film title was suggesting something of prestige - that the first film had been so good it's hard was fully justified to believe sometimeshave something more. That has hardly been proven correct, but bear with me) I was asked if I was going it has until recently almost been confined to do the cinema - you barely got a TV series worthy of a philosophy Anumbered sequel, and never in the world of non-levelfiction. NoIf someone has made a nature series about, say, I said – Alaska (and boy aren't there was no point in studying something nobody can agree aboutare a lot of those these days) and wants to make another, why she just makes another - nothing would justify the numeral. The introduction to this book raises much But some nature programmes do have the same point – prestige, the solution to philosophical questions energy and study is only ever going the heft to be more questionsdemand follow-ups. It says that Kant thought And after five years in the study of thoughtmaking, the BBC''or, more precisely, how ideas are formed'' was the highest science, although that sounds like the psychology that I did indeed study. Still, study it many people do do – and probably s Blue Planet series has delivered a far greater number would wish to read around it and find out what it might be like to sound as if you have studied it – hence books like thissecond helping.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434135</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Cohu1783099593|title=Out of the Woods: the armchair guide to treesSpeaking Up|author=Allyson Jule

|summary=Most people probably accept trees as, well, 'Speaking Up'trees''. They're there has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and they're greenshapes our notions of gender. Some are lighterIt looks at our use of language in media, some darker. Some are taller and other go for widtheducation, but as for telling them apart there were few that I could identify until recently. I knew that the big tree at the bottom of next door's garden is a sycamorereligion, but only because I heard someone say 'that sycamore is going to cause problems with the drains workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the flats at mid-twentieth century to the back'present day. I was OK on white horse chestnuts tooReading it, but only when the kids were collecting conkers, so I was rather pleased when Will Cohu's book landed we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on my desk gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and I opened it expecting to find lots of pictures the Kardashians with all the details which I probably wouldn't rememberequal rigour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722354</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eugenia ChengCampbell_Astra|title=Cakes, Custard and Category TheoryAd Astra: Easy recipes for understanding complex mathsAn illustrated guide to leaving the planet|author=Dallas Campbell

|summary= Eugenia Cheng is a professor So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you'd better study the whole history of maths and a lover of cakehuman space flight to get up to speed. If you’re wondering how those two things That could ever intersect, it’s quite easy. And the result, the middle of the Venn diagram, take a while… if only there was a handy guide that could condense it all down for you will, is . Enter Dallas Campbell with this book which makes maths fun, meaningful and relatively easy : An illustrated guide to digest. Much like her recipesleaving the planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00TA8SIV6</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jen Green and Wesley RobinsAdrian_Sock|title=Oceans in 30 SecondsSock (Object Lessons)|author=Kim Adrian|rating=3.5

|summary=Oceans in 30 Seconds is the latest The subject of this book in the innovative series from Ivy Presshas been around for several millennia, which aims to give an informative and entertaining overview yet my partner's daughter has been employed for several years designing it, or them. It's something I use for about 200 days of every year, at a given subject in biteguess (well, I have my self-sized chunks. Each given subject has its own twodiagnosed over-page spread, with a concise description on active eccrine glands and other people to think about) – which clearly puts me at the left, covering all opposite end of the main pointsscale to well-known mass-murderer of women, Ted Bundy, and who was into stealing credit cards to fund his desire of having a colourful illustration on fresh pair every single day. On which subject, the right hand page, complete with extra snippets amount of informationthem we create every year could stack to the freaking moon and more. Each chapter also has Some idiots buy more than six pairs a handy 3-second sum upyear, apparently, which further condenses the main idea is plain stupid. I'm talking, as you can tell, of the chapter into a single sentencehumble sock.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240239X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian StewartGermano_Eye|title=Professor Stewart’s Incredible NumbersEye Chart (Object Lessons)|author=William Germano

|summary= Incredible Numbers starts off easily enoughIt's happened to me, with a really interesting look at numbers and like as seen by not it has or will happen to you, too. I mean the earliest peoplereceipt of certain little numerical results, with a positive or negative before moving on them to prove the correction needed to my vision to a brief explanation make me see with the intended clarity and normality. I've had that gizmo that photos the back of natural numbersmy eye to check for diabetes and other problems, rational numbersI've had different tests to check the pressure inside my eye, negative numbers and complex I've come away with glasses I don't need to wear all the time, but certainly benefit from on holiday, or when watching TV or a cinema or theatre production. And above and beyond that I've stared at – and prime numbers. Subsequent chapters revisit old friends such as Pythagoras’s theoremgot wrong – the simple, seemingly ageless test, of various letters in various configurations that diminish in size, to prove to the Fibonacci cuberelevant scientist at what stage things get blurry for me. Of course, negative numbersit's not ageless, pi and quadratic equationsbut the scientific progress that led to it, and the changes other lesser known concepts such as kissing numberspeople made to it, imaginary numbers and the winsomelycultural impact it's had are all on these eye-named Sausage Conjectureopening small pages. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254109</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy MorinBall_Wonders|title=13 Wonders Beyond Numbers: A Brief History of All Things Mentally Strong People Don't DoMathematical|author=Johnny Ball

|summary=When Amy Morin was just 26 and working as Like many people of a psychologist and therapist her husband died suddenly, but even whilst she was reeling from the shock she realised that there were things which she must ''notcertain age,'' do. She knew that she must not develop a sense I have fond memories of entitlement, feel resentment or succumb tuning in to self-pitywatch Johnny Ball enthusiastically extolling the virtues of maths and science; succeeding where our schoolteachers had failed and actually making these subjects ''fun. That was ten years ago: '' Although decades have passed since then Morin those classic TV shows, his latest book proves that he has remarried lost none of his passion and worked with numerous patients using the principles which she applied to herself. She's found 13 common habits which hold us back in life and developed strategies to combat them. But the best thing which she makes clear is that mental strength is not about acting tough - enthusiasm for instance, if you've suffered a bereavement, you need to grieve - it's about having the mental wherewithal to overcome life's challengeshis subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008105936</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr William DavisYong_Contain|title=Wheat BellyI Contain Multitudes: The effortless health the microbes within us and weight-loss solution - no exercise, no calorie counting, no denial|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Dr William Davis poses an interesting question: why is it that people who are leading an active a grander view of life and eating a healthy diet are putting on weight despite all their best efforts? He has a simple and worrying answer: wheat, which he argues increases blood sugar more than table sugar. The problem isn't restricted to weight gain, either: there's evidence to suggest that wheat affects psychosis and autism too. In fact - the more that you read, the more you'll wonder if there's an organ in the body which ''isn't'' adversely affected by wheat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008118922</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lewis Dartnell|title=The KnowledgeEd Yong|rating=4.5

|summary=Post apocaplyptic depictions of earth are common place in Science Fiction - the wonderful (if hugely depressing) ''The Road'' by Cormac McCarthy, The ''MaddAdam'' trilogy by Margaret Atwood (although I believe Ms Atwood would be rather rankled to hear her books described as 'Science Fiction'), and the recent ''Station Eleven'' by Emily St. John Mandel are just world you know is a small drop in the very deep ocean of post apocalyptic bookslie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575833</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Edzard Ernst|title=A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble|rating=4There is no such thing as good or bad microbes.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Professor Edzard Ernst was born in Germany not long after the end of World War II Sickness and grew up with guilt about what had happened in the years before he was born as well as an insatiable curiosity - with the two not being entirely entirely unconnectedhealth are all far more complex than we thought. He also developed an attitude of speaking his mind - as an early challenge Things designed to his step-father about the death of six million Jews in the course of the war provedsave us may kill us and things we think would kill us may save us. In his teens he wasn't determined to become a doctor - he had a hankering to be a musician - despite the fact that it was the family business, so to speak, but came round Welcome to the idea and practiced in various countries before settling in Exeter as Professor modern study of Complementary Medicine at the universitymicrobes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845407776</amazonuk>